God’s health and human health: A proposal for the world of well-being

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

 
 
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Title God’s health and human health: A proposal for the world of well-being
 
Creator Ellens, J. Harold
 
Subject — Contra narrative; dominant narrative; God’s mental health; Psychology of Religion
Description This article reflects on people’s presuppositions with regard to God’s mental health as it has been recounted throughout history. The article asserts that the dominant report of a ‘sick god’ has nothing to do with God at all, but is, instead, the manifestation of a sick projection of people who are terrified of the unknown and the unpredictable in life. Such a projection reflects their own fears, which they project upon their own mental image of the mentor who they thought was God. The other, sound, report on God’s mental health has encountered many difficulties in competing with the dominant report. The alternative report has met with much resistance, because it seems so humanly unbelievable, in its claim that God is a God of unconditional grace to all humankind.
 
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Date 2011-04-11
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/hts.v67i1.819
 
Source HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 67, No 1 (2011); 6 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422
 
Language eng
 
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https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/819/1630 https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/819/1827 https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/819/1631 https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/819/1567
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2011 J. Harold Ellens https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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